A streamlined synthesis of extended thiophloroglucinol ligands and their trinuclear NiII3 complexes.

A protocol for the synthesis of trinucleating C3-symmetric ligands based on a central meta-phenylene bridging 1,3,5-trimercaptobenzene (thiophloroglucinol) backbone has been established. The key compound turned out to be the trialdehyde obtained from the triple nucleophilic attack of dimethyldithiocarbamate at 1,3,5-tribromo-2,4,6-triformylbenzene. Reacting this trialdehyde with six equivalents of a primary amine results in the simultaneous dithiocarbamate cleavage and Schiff-base formation providing the extended thiophloroglucinol ligands H3bertdien, H6bert(Me), H6bert(t-Bu2), and H6habbi.

Bioinspired enhancement of superexchange: from 1,3,5-trihydroxybenzene-bridged to 1,3,5-trimercaptobenzene-bridged trinuclear copper(II) complexes.

An unprecedented trinucleating ligand with a central 1,3,5-trimercaptobenzene unit and its trinuclear Cu(II)(3) complex are presented. The high covalency of the difficult-to-realize Cu(II)-SR bond provides an order of magnitude increase in the superexchange interaction in comparison to its oxygen analogue.

A Mn(III) triplesalen-based 1D pearl necklace: exchange interactions and zero-field splittings in a C3-symmetric Mn(III)6 complex.

The reaction of the tert-butyl-substituted triplesalen ligand H(6)talen(t-Bu(2)) with 2.8 equivalents of Mn(OAc)(2) x 4 H(2)O in MeOH in the presence of NaBPh(4) results in the formation of the one-dimensional (1D) coordination polymer {[{(talen(t-Bu(2)))Mn(3)(MeOH)}(2)(mu(2)-OAc)(3)](mu(2)-OAc)}(n)(BPh(4))(2n) ({[Mn(III)(6)](OAc)}(n)(BPh(4))(2n)) which has been characterized by FTIR, elemental analysis, ESI-MS, single-crystal X-ray diffraction and magnetic measurements. The triplesalen ligand (talen(t-Bu(2)))(6-) provides three salen-like coordination compartments bridged in a meta-phenylene arrangement by a phloroglucinol backbone resulting in the trinuclear Mn(III) base unit {(talen(t-Bu(2)))Mn(3)}(3+).

Ferromagnetic coupling by orthogonal magnetic orbitals in a heterodinuclear CuIIVIV=O complex and in a homodinuclear CuIICuII complex.

The heterodinuclear complex [LCuIIVIVO] 1 was synthesized by using a new unsymmetric dinucleating ligand based on 1,8-naphthalenediol, whereas the homodinuclear CuIICuII complex 2 has a bridging beta-diketimineamid unit. Here we report on the synthesis, molecular structures, and magnetic properties of 1 and 2. In the solid state, both complexes dimerize to tetranuclear entities 1(2) and 2(2).